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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 257

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'BOY AND BUF FALO' GROUP, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'BOY AND BUFFALO' GROUP
17TH CENTURY
十七世紀 青玉雕童子牧牛擺件

well carved, depicting the buffalo recumbent with its four legs tucked under the body, its head turned back facing a small boy
playfully clambering over its ridged spine, the boy holding a whip in one hand and a rope tied through the animal's nostrils in the
other, the softly polished stone a pale green tone with areas of russet inclusions

Length 5½ in., 14 cm

Provenance
C.T. Loo, New York, 1st December 1943.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
盧芹齋，紐約，1943年12月1日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
The buffalo and herd-boy motif was a popular subject from the Song period (960-1279) and was symbolic of childhood play and
bucolic freedom, which is effectively rendered in the engaging poses of the boy and buffalo of the present carving.

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